design them instead. I find that I’m continually being asked by people for advice on how to write their presentations and almost inevitably these people are wedded to the million-words-per-slide-in-lots-of-bullet-points school. It’s got to the […]

I’m not thinking here of a monk’s washing…. I’m more thinking of the kinds of phrases that have become so popular they annoy people. (Worse, they might even be nonsense phrases to begin with.) Oxford […]

Rather like an elephant, you know it when you see it. For me, presentations are about two things penetration – getting something into someone’s head; and retention – making sure it stays there. One of […]

Recently, I seem to have heard lots of people, in various places, saying that they don’t understand why they’re nervous or anxious when they make presentations because they’re confident and they know their stuff. Well, […]

This is a really, really simple tip about using your voice well when you’re public speaking or making presentations…. by hitting a word in a sentence with extra weight you give your audience a comparator […]